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Fanny By Gaslight.
de Sadleir, Michael
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/VG/VG
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
HARDBACK "NEARLY SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OLD" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1947 (1940)* Publisher: The Reprint Society.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, gilt title to maroon spine label. Absolutely minimal bumps, very slight shelf wear to edges, corners & the head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Black title to red illustrated paper dust wrapper showing a horoscope (normal design for World Books,) no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small losses at head of spine. Overall darkened & aged. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge coloured red & slightly aged, some spotting to end papers. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 385 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.*Description: This is the author's best known work which was adapted as a film in 1941 and as a television series in 1981. A fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London. Initially set in France in the 1930's and written in the third person it tells of an encounter between a middle-aged book publisher, Gerald Warbeck, and an elderly lady whom he first assumes is called Mme Oupére, but discovers is English, and called Hooper. He becomes intrigued by how she ended up in a provincial French backwater, and persuades her to tell him her story.* A NEAR VERY GOOD++ copy with some age & wear reducing it to VG. Wrapper now in protective jacket.*
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 9173
- Título
- Fanny By Gaslight.
- Autor
- Sadleir, Michael
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+/VG/VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Thus,
- Editorial
- The Reprint Society
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK. 387
- Fecha de publicación
- 1947-01-01
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Cocksparrow Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Sobre Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
